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Podcast: Healthy And Free Daily
Episode: Understanding Parkinson's Disease (Including Direct and Indirect Pathways)
Description: "...Parkinson's disease is a neurodegenerative condition affecting dopaminergic neurons in the brain leading to Associated motor symptoms neurodegeneration means a progressive irreversible loss of neurons and in Parkinson's disease it is mostly the dopamine-producing neurons in the substantia nigra that's a lost for us to move signals are generated by the cerebral cortex that then pass through the motor pathways and lead to with our muscles and ultimately movement however this process needs to be regulated which is primarily the job of the basal ganglia the substantia nigra is a part of the basal ganglia which are a group...